Willem wrote:At least, no accounting for the awful taste of the members of the forum. For example, there are people here who think Pyramids is Pratchett's worst, and others who think it's his best (you can recognise them from their straightjackets).

I'll post a suitably witty riposte to that insult just as soon as I can get my arms free. Maybe if I bang my head against this padded wall it might help?

"Disliking Carrot would be like kicking a puppy.""You kicked a puppy," Lobsang said accusingly.

I have to say that I'm not too impressed with UA myself but then I wasn't likely to be as I really can't be bothered about football. The WAG aspect of it was good though and I enjoyed the bits with Pepe a lot - Glenda and Nutt were kinda sweet too

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.” George Bernard Shaw

Hardly his worst but it was of the same standard as his earlier works rather than his recent works and there were a few poorly explained things like why it was important for the Patrician that the game be a success.

I have two questions which I can't seem to find an answer to no matter how many times I read the book:
a) Does Pepe have a beard
b) Is Jewels short for a human since she can pass for a tall dwarf

With Rhys casually dismissing his advisers concerns about Jewels and Shatta, it seems to me that his position is much stronger than it's even been. In Fifth Elephant and Thud he seemed to be on tenterhooks whenever he dealt with his people as though any moment he could be unseated. I feel that we're going to see Rhys outing herself sometime within the next few books as he's become to popular and has changed the way dwarfs think to such an extent that it won't be the sort of thing that would have him dethroned

Even though I greatly dislike this book, I can't help but wonder: If it would have been written PAST the 2010 world cup, how much would have changed?
With Vuvuzelas, Paul the Octopus, the breaking of the wembley-curse (breaking as in: the scales have been evened again...gods, that game was glorious XD (apologies to all british football fans here)) around, and that only on the topic of football.